I moved to Karachi eight years back. Its home. And it has taught me much: the beauty of diversity, the ugliness when that diversity is used to create violence, what a cruel state can do to its own, wht a wounded city looks like when it perseveres, regardless of every stab & shot>

-- and, most of all, what just basic TLC can do for a metropolis (something Karachi has not received in decades). I remember the shock of being in a city that had been left to its own (this was also the time of insane crime)>>

And in all of that, I remember constantly asking friends and colleagues just who was responsible for this. [The answers always vary in Khi, depending on which political party you favour]>>

To me, and I'm no last word on this, its not the fault of any 'community' (including IDPs and the stateless). Its those sitting in various tiers of government (provincial + city), and MORE SEO those we know as the real rulers of this state>>

Also: both the PPP and the MQM need to stop with the blame game. The PPP largely ignores Karachi because they don't see it as a constituency. Which is RIDICULOUS because its the capital of the province they rule over.>>

The MQM, in all its avatars, has always claimed to LOVE Karachi. For a party that says that constantly, I don't see the love having translated into much. And let's not even go to the PTI, because they came with heavy promises, which have amounted to zilch.

Congrats: the cars that are floating around and the bijli that's never there and the constant fear of being stuck at home/work/street as soon as a drop of water falls -- YOU ALL made it happen. And now YOU watch while we all sit squabble over who has been less incompetent